Esquire – London’s Best

Jay Rayner – Easy Does It

June 26, 2014, The Observer Magazine

If you like your BBQ – and I do – you will love this. And if you don’t you are dead to me, on both counts. Properly jointed chicken wings are well smoked and well sauced. Their thick-sliced pit-smoked bacon is better still. In BBQ you choose your team and you stick with it. These (pork ribs) are thick cut. The meat has the obligatory (but often not found) pink tinge that comes with long exposure to smoke.

It’s easy to swoon over at the back-lit bar, with it’s 500+ bottles of rare spirits, more than 300 of them whisky a shimmering piece of accidental art.

Openings – Restaurant Magazine

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There’s something for everyone, as long as it’s butch and American: fried seafood, barbecue, whole lobsters, steaks, burgers, sandwiches and salads – all plus-sized. The drinks list is as expansive as the food menu with boozy slushies, cocktails on tap, X-rated shakes, well-chosen draught beers and a strong showing of bottled craft beer from the UK and the US.